CRITICAL THEORY IN MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES*

博士前期課程グローバル・スタディーズ研究科 - グローバル社会専攻

MZJS5070

コース情報

担当教員: FEENEY William

単位数: 4

年度: 2024

学期: 秋学期

曜限: 水3, 水4

形式: 対面授業

レベル: 600

アクティブラーニング: あり

他学部履修: 可

評価方法

出席状況

10%

授業参加

25%

リアクションペーパー

20%

レポート

45%

その他

See the course Moodle for a detailed breakdown of requirements.

詳細情報

概要

This course will survey the critical approaches that under-gird studies of popular culture and explore their theoretical underpinnings. We will review several landmark theories and major approaches, situating theory in the historical context of its development and tracing the arc of concerns that have directed and shaped critical engagements with popular culture. The scope of the course is broad in order to highlight the ways that theoretical developments unfolded in relation to prior concerns. Beyond theoretical and historical content, this course will also emphasize methodological instruction. This reflects a recognition that theories serve as models for the analysis of complex social systems. Throughout the course students will be asked to apply the concepts, frameworks and methods reviewed in class to real-world popular cultural phenomena. The final project will task students with selecting a pop-cultural form and presenting a longer form analysis, making curated use of the authors and frameworks covered in the course.

目標

Students will gain a working understanding of critical theory and its application within media studies and cultural studies. Additionally, students will learn how to select, adapt, and apply the analytic frameworks covered in the course to develop and pursue their own research on popular culture phenomena.

授業外の学習

(140 min) Read weekly readings and prepare for class discussion. (40 min) Read and write on the class discussion board. (60 min) Assignments, Midterm Test, and Final Project.

所要時間: 240 minutes.

スケジュール

Course Introduction & Introduction to Key Themes and Concepts: Models of Communication, Media & Circulation; Epistemology, Ontology and Ideology; Universal vs Relative; Society & Intersectionality (Gender, Race & Class)
As above.
Starting at the Base: Culture, Power and Capital High culture vs Popular Culture, Textual Analysis vs Political Economy, Marxist models of structural domination.
As above.
Replicative Anxieties: The Frankfurt School and the Massification of Culture Critical theories on the social and cultural consequences of mass production and mass culture.
As above.
Exploring Ideology: Diagramming Agency and Power Althusser on ISAs and Interpellation
As above.
Coding Culture: Texts, Codes and Power Situating semiology and structuralism within social process; Theories of active reception and textual power.
As above.
Signs of Panic: Ontological Anxieties and Aesthetics after Fordism Structuralist approaches to ideology and ‘false’ consciousness.
As above.
Mapping Cultural Capital: Fields of Cultural Production Mapping fields of cultural production and diverse modes of symbolic capital.
As above.
Publics versus the Public Sphere: The public sphere and its critics. Contrasts with more recent models of publics (and counter-publics).
As above.
The Dissolution of Reality: Beyond the limits of Semiology and Structuralism Review efforts to push beyond the theoretical boundaries afforded by structuralism.
As above.
Performance and Performativity: Shift from code to performance and practice as site of ideological struggle.
As above.
Animation & Performance: 'Animation' as emerging alternative trope of media process.
As above.
Signs in Process: Publics and Counterpublics Revisited Publics (and counterpublics) reformulated from the point of view of semiotic process.
As above.
Monograph Session A class discussion about a recent book in media or cultural studies.
As above.
The Medium is the Message A critical examination of media as extensions of human capacities.
Course Review and Wrap-up

教科書

All required class materials will be made available via moodle or delivered via email.

参考書

書籍情報はありません。